Abstract We describe a universal meteor simulation tool set named Asmodeus and present several of its possible use cases. The toolset consists of a Monte-Carlo simulator of meteoroids entering the Earth’s atmosphere, functions for transformation to observer-centred coordinate frames representing virtual views of the sky, application of observational bias effects and a number of statistical tools for analyses of produced data sets and comparison to real-world data. The simulation has already been used in several areas of research, most notably estimates of meteoroid flux and de-biasing of real-world meteor observations and in investigation of how varying the initial properties of meteoroids affects the resulting meteors. It lends itself to many more possible applications, such as assessment of selection bias in ground-based observing systems, investigation of models of meteor flight and ablation, and evaluation of mass and population indices of meteor showers.

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ASMODEUS 流星模拟工具

摘要 我们描述了一个名为 Asmodeus 的通用流星模拟工具集，并展示了它的几个可能的用例。该工具集包括进入地球大气层的流星体的蒙特卡罗模拟器、用于转换为代表天空虚拟视图的以观察者为中心的坐标系的函数、观测偏差效应的应用以及用于分析生成的数据集和与真实世界数据的比较。该模拟已用于多个研究领域，最显着的是流星体通量的估计和真实世界流星观测的去偏差，以及研究流星体初始属性的变化如何影响产生的流星。它适用于更多可能的应用，例如评估地面观测系统中的选择偏差，